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| Lao Tzu's disciple, who lived some two hundreds years after him and wrote numerous treatises on the tao. Interpreter of Tao te Ching |
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| The founder of Confucianism and the philosophical opponent of Lao Tzu |
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| the three regions of the body which, according to religious taoists, are located in the head, chest, and abdomen. |
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| those who have become immortal |
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| "book of changes" containing explanations of systems of divination; also accepted as one of the five Classics of Confucianism |
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| Taoist scholar and proponent of the immortality school of religious Taoism, including alchemy, many of the hygiene practices and the accumulation of goodness as a means to attaining immortality |
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| the most familiar name of the founder of Taoism, meaning "old boy." |
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| the paradisiacal island upon which the hsien were believed to dwell |
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| beneficial spirits associated with the sun and the spring, who protected people from the kuei |
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| "book of history" one of the five classics of confucianism |
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| literally means the 'way' or 'order' but in Taoism refers to the ordering principle of the universe. For things to be in their natural and proper state, they must be in harmony with the Tao |
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| translates as "the book of the Tao," "The wisdom of Lao Tzu," or the "book of Tao," the basic text of Taoism composed by Lao Tzu |
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| the five elements: earth, wood, metal, fire and water |
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| "non-action" "non-doing" or 'inaction' the Taoist form of action, meaning to do nothing in such a way that all things are accomplished and world is brought into subjection to the Tao |
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| the male principle of the universe, characterized by light, heat, strength, positivity, intellect, agression, dryness, sky, heaven, sun and south. |
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| the female principle of the universe, characterized by darkness, cold, weakness, negativity, intuition, sluggishness, wetness, earth, moon and north. |
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